Shalom,
Here is my response to Yigal Gross's article about using public school for secular studies.
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blogs.timesofisrael.com]
An excerpt:
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Mr. Gross essentially proposes that American Jews return to the Talmud Torah model that saw its heyday in the first half of the 20th century, where students would go to their local public school in the morning and then go to their local synagogue for lessons in Judaic studies. Dr. Jack Wertheimer thoroughly documents the failure of the supplementary education model - [
www.bjpa.org] .
While Mr. Gross proposes a better version of the supplementary school model, his Talmud Torah 2.0 idea will suffer from the same devastating shortcomings.
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Making Jewish day school affordable is a holy endeavor that lacks an easy or obvious solution. Keeping Jewish education at its current level, and figuring out ways to make it better is our first priority; making it affordable is a close second. As we go through this uncertain process of making Jewish education affordable, we need to remember that Jewish education plays such a central role in our religion that as God describes his reason to distinguish Avraham, he states, “For I have singled him out, that he may instruct his children and his posterity to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is just and right†(Genesis 18:19).
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Kol tuv,
Rafi
Rabbi Rafi Eis
CEO, Mekorot Learning
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